Tree of Codes: a very clever book
Jonathan Safran’s Tree of Codes is a book created by cutting out chunks of text from another novel. … Read the full post »
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Jonathan Safran’s Tree of Codes is a book created by cutting out chunks of text from another novel. … Read the full post »
Iain Watson’s Five Million Conversations is an interesting read, but don’t read it on its own if you want an accurate picture of why the 2015 general election was lost by Labour. … Read the full post »
What do you find if you actually put forecasts to the test by recording them, checking which were right or wrong, and analysing who is best at making forecasts? That is what Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner set out to do in Superforecasting. … Read the full post »
Shortly after the Conservative Party won its fourth general election in a row in 1992, a symposium met to consider the question of whether Britain – formerly a country with regularly rotating government between the two main parties – was turning into a political version of Japan. … Read the full post »
Gavin Barwell’s book is a great introduction to what MPs seeking re-election in marginal seats really get up to. … Read the full post »
Austerity and Political Choice in Britain comes with an all-star cast of authors – Harold D. Clarke, Peter Kellner, Marianne C. Stewart, Joe Twyman and Paul Whiteley. … Read the full post »
Peter Sloman’s The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964 comes with as hefty a price tag as its weight of scholarly research. … Read the full post »
It is not hard to imagine the opening words of Peter Kellner’s chapter on 1983 being pressed into service with barely an edit for other elections. … Read the full post »
M.R.C. Kasasian’s The Mangle Street Murders is the first in The Gower Street Detective Series and it’s a very promising start. … Read the full post »
Permeated with Robert Worcester’s typical breezily dismissive style, Explaining Cameron’s Comeback (written with three co-authors) is rather different from most of the other 2015 general election books. … Read the full post »